Today's walk started
from the road leading to the café at Grindleford train station
climbing steeply up towards the National Trust's Longshaw Estate then
along the edge above Yarncliff Wood looking across to Lose Hill and
Back Tor in the distance.
As we walked through
the Estate grounds, we saw a Green Woodpecker flying past and after
following the path past the large pond we arrived at the National
Trust café next to the impressive Longshaw Lodge, were we stopped to
had sausage rolls and a pot of tea.
Afterwards, we
followed the drive leading to Fox House Inn and the road to
Grindleford, then crossed the road and followed the path leading
through woods to soon arrive at Burbage Bridge and the Sheffield
Road.
After crossing this
road, we followed a path through the bracken leading towards the
large rocky promontories of Carlwark and Higgar Tor before turning
off in the direction of Over Owler Tor.
We followed the path
down past the gritstone tor called Mother Cap again reaching the
Sheffield Road, which we crossed and followed and old sunken path
leading to the top of Padley Gorge where we had the choice of two ice
cream vans to get and ice cream from!
We had an ice cream
while sitting on some boulders where families and children were
picknicking next to Burbage Brook.
We followed the path
leading down Padley Gorge to arrive back at Grindleford Station,
where we had started from.
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| Guide Stoop near Estate entrance |
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| Heather in Bloom |
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| Higgar Tor |
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